[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.