“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

A philosopher once said, It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results. Well, they don’t!

I couldn’t claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys-but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it.

I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

I a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick.

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell.

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Why nature is mathematical is, again, a mystery.

If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.

I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you. Simple as that.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

You gotta be careful: don’t say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.