1. “Religions do not teach doubt.”
2. “No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well unreal.”
3. “Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.”
4. “Science is like literature a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.”
5. “Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury – or at least comfort – so there’s a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.”
6. “In a tough situation don’t avoid acting just because it’s easier or comfortable. Don’t lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.”
7. “I don’t get even, I get odder.”
8. “Ugliness is nature’s contraceptive.”
9. “Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.”
10. “People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.”
11. “When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.”
12. “The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.”
13. “To shine is better than to reflect.”
14. “Disintegration of structure equals information loss.”
15. “Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.”
16. “Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.”
17. “I’ve always felt that specialization is best left to the insects.”
18. “In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.”
19. “Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.”
20. “You don’t actually have the ideas, ideas have you.”
21. “Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.”
22. “Aging is mostly the failure to repair.”
23. “To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars and perhaps even beyond.”
24. “Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.”
25. “The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.”
