Scientists derive satisfaction from figuring out the puzzle. It's about the quest, not the grail.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.