The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.