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.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.