I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.
Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.
Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
Only a lie that wasn’t ashamed of itself could possibly succeed.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.