What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
Civilization is hideously fragile. . . there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
It's not only possible, but likely that the Nobel Prize in economics will go in alternate years to people who disagree on nearly everything fundamental.
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways - questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but have been very difficult to get a firm mechanistic laws-of-physics grasp on.