The law of conservation of energy tells us we can’t get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
When I die I won’t go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.
I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation.
Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.
I don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.
Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing.
If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.
If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?
All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.
Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere.
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.
We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.