Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

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

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

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.