“There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.”

“The bravest thing David Bowie ever did was to go on stage after Queen at Live Aid.”

“Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.”

“Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.”

“Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”

“Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

“Life as we know it is our perception of reality.”

“It is easier to not know than to not comprehend, for not knowing implies that the world is large, and that is a fact. Not comprehending is a far more personal fault.”

“Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.”

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,Such shaping fantasies, that apprehendMore than cool reason ever comprehends.The lunatic, the lover and the poetAre of imagination all compact:One sees m...”

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing ...”

“The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have...”

“...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.”

“The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellec...”

“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of science. At the time I could only regard him with tolerant condescension....”