While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.

If you want to know the reality, just subtract the things that you think are real from your mind. Now the remaining is the reality.

Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

Of course you know. You're brilliant. Everyone says so.""What else can they say? I do neurochemistry. No one knows what that is.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.