Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.

Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?