The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.
P57/8- one must seek to live with others in solidarity..only through communication can human life hold meaning.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!
Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi's sarcoma.
{ } No, it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways, the two ways being 13 + 123 and 93 + 103.
'Eternal inflation,' as it's called - the endless generation of new universes - may be a hyper-cosmic imperative. It seems that it must happen.
There are a few very small incompatible changes - I really doubt most people will ever run into them.
The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. (more or less verbatim quote)
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.
Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
