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When the basic status of a theory is clear, and all that needs to be cleared are details, you can collaborate. But if the main structure of a hypothesis isn't established, and you want to change the paradigm - like it was the case in the 1960s - it's...

Peter Higgs

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys.

Rory Culkin

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

Richard Dawkins

We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.’ ‘We burned York two winters ago,’ Drogo pointed out.

Hawk Quest

A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Set Theory and Its Logic

The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.

Turing & Burroughs

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

The Pilgrim Hawk

With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Poetics

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Poetics

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

Theories and Things

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Aristotle

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

Nathan Myhrvold

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

Nathan Myhrvold

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Nathan Myhrvold

All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.

Neil deGrasse Tyson