The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

I am not a televangelist.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

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

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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.

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

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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?

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.