Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

It is often said that the progression from simple to complex runs counter to the normal statistics of chance that are formalized in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Strictly speaking, we could avoid this criticism simply by insisting that the Second Law does not apply to living systems in the environment in which we find them. For the Second Law applies only when there is no overall flow of energy into or out of a system, whereas all living systems are sustained by a net inflow of energy.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.