Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.