“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

God is a verb, not a noun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Each one of us could make the difference.

The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The hardest part of living is experiencing death without dying.

I just gotta not suck; which is hard, considering exactly who I am.

To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.

Don’t use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

If you can stare hard at your problems, they almost always shrink or disappear, because you almost always find a better way of dealing with them than if you don’t face them head on. The more difficult the problem, the more important it is that you stare at it and deal with it.

When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There’s something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome’; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.