Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
In the eyes of all of them was the hollow stare of fear, and there was hollowness in their merriment, too.
I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences...
Because, if you didn’t know any physical chemistry, you could look at a crystal and ask all the same questions. You’d see those beautiful spars, those perfect geometric facets, and you could ask, What...
A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll...
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
There was no objective truth, only the truth that’s established by power.
It is important to recognize that the behavior of the two antagonists mirrors each other, like a Rorschach inkblot. The value of a Rorschach test lies in what it tells us about ourselves. It
You know what’s wrong with scientific power? Malcolm said. It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails.
The computer system is secure.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
Sitting in his office, he made a nice mathematical model, and it never occurred to him that what he saw as defects were actually necessities. Look: when I was working on missiles, we dealt with someth...
Obsession is just a variety of addiction.
Let’s say we had a bad one, and all the plants and animals died, and the earth was clicking hot for a hundred thousand years. Life would survive somewhere—under the soil, or perhaps frozen in Arctic i...
La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitar...
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This i...
Yet I have discovered that if all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief...
This may be why Einstein once said; Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities...
They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.