The most moral activity of all is the creation of space for life to move around.

A culture that supports the dominance of social values over biological values is an absolutely superior culture to one that does not, and a culture that supports the dominance of intellectual values over social values is absolutely superior to one that does not.

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Why, for example, 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? What's the motive?

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.