It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work.

That's human nature. Nobody does anything until it's too late.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.