It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.