Global warming is real - it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world.
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.
I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.