You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.