“The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.”

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

You just have to learn not to care about the dusty mites under the beds.

No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be.

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

You’re only complicated to a man who simply wants to fuck you.

Don’t want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.

Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.