I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.