All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly.

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.