Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.