I want people to feel like they can do anything.
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Evolution. . . is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust.
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.
I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.
And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.
My father was an engineer,. . But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.