We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.
Good novels are not written, they’re rewritten!
Theories are just fantasies. And they change.
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can’t write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It’s my life. It’s my responsibility.
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You’re absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You’re psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words ’everybody needs an editor.
Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.
Auschwitz exists because of politicized science.
Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.
I was raised with the idea that if you’re not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.
It’s not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.
Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I’ve found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn’t enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I’m just screwing around.