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If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.
Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.
One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.
We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.
All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.
In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.
Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.
For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.
God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.
When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.
The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
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.
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.
All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.
Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.
It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.