If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

There is no gambling like politics.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I am not a televangelist.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

A witty saying proves nothing.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.