The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.
In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.
Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.
One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it
Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.
If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.
All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the sc...
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.
If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
