It was so astonishing for women to sit there looking at images of female genitals. When we took those photographs, I got body rushes.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught...

It took long and patient work to put it into the head of the public that General Jackson was a great man and that he brought honor to America.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn’t have. It’s very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame...

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

Since I’ve been building quantum computers I’ve come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The orgasm is simply when the body does take over.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we’ve designed a food system that produces a lot of...

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

One of the things that I’ve been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

I consider myself a lesbian, but I’m a bisexual lesbian.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks – ways of thinking analytically – are tied to nature’s laws.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient – philanthropic prudence is also needed.

It turns out Johnny Appleseed, John Chapman, was a real historical figure who played a very important role in the frontier in the Northwest territory.

The prices of all imports would rise if the dollar depreciates.

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

It’s very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

It’s queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions,...

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

There’s been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

Love can be understood only “from the inside,” as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

I don’t know the right number of immigrants to let in.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your orgasms in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take...

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time 11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It’s like time travel...

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

I build quantum computers that store information on individual atoms and then massage the normal interactions between the atoms to make them compute.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

The majority is still at the General’s disposal.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.