All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.
I'm trying to understand how time works. And that's a huge question that has lots of different aspects to it.
The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it's only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case.
As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
