The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of shame; the world of pain; and our dreams. No one else knows these lives. Consciousness is solitary. Each person lives in that bubble universe that rests under the skull, alone.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

What we need is equality without conformity.