Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.
There is no history, only histories.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.
It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.