The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Many admire, few know.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

People love conspiracy theories.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.