My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature’s laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is...

On sensitive issues, talk isn’t cheap – it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

In corn, I think I’ve found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald’s meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is...

The dollar went up some eighty percent in real terms as I recall now or something like that – from ’80 to ’85.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it’s complex.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to have a conversation to find out what people prefer when it comes to...

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.

We are far from the end of our war against terrorism – most of which these days is Muslim in origin – but we may be at the end of the beginning.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

People are becoming more and more interested in science, and that’s because they realize that science impacts their daily lives in important ways.

Think for yourself and question authority.

The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I’m a feminist and I think I’ve done a lot...

That is to say, nature’s laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children...

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that’s what sex is about; that’s what history is about.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals – Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine – which set the agenda.

The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the...

Clearly, packaging issues alone make it unlikely that this limit can be obtained, even setting aside the difficulties of stability and control.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

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.