The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
Harpo: Who this, Pa? Who this? Albert: The woman that shoulda been yo' mammy.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." ~(Albert Einstein)
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.
Anger is a good motivator.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.
Albert Volpe: We should wet our beaks a little.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Some days you live in pajamas and your hair has that kind-of Albert Einstein look.
