To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving; not of evading, but of boldly proclaiming a full, consistent, and radical alternative.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.