Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is at best to succumb to another necessity, the necessity of large numbers. The good player does not fool himself, and accepts that there is exactly one chance, which produces by chance the necessity and even the purpose that he experiences.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.