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.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

Morality must keep up with technology because if a person is faced with the choice of being moral and dead or immoral and alive, they'll choose life everytime.

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

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.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.