The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.
I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.
My aunt is a famous L.A. chef, Susan Feniger, and she's got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt's restaurants.
In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.
I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
You have not fully expressed your power as a voter until you have scientific literacy in topics that matter for future political issues.
There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.
I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.
The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
