The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the...

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can’t talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

When Wal-Mart and McDonald’s start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.

There’s a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of...

When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

What this means is that we shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

High-quality food is better for your health.

So you can be pretty sure that central banks around the world will not start dumping dollars on the market in order to buy euros.

Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

I went through the ’70s and ’80s saying, I’m a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said that, no one asked me another thing.

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

To the extent that the United States has, I don’t like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don’t think that’s based on to any significant degree on the fact...

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can’t do better than including everything in the universe that’s potentially available.

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.

Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can’t emphasize enough lubrication.

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest – the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Today we have so much more flow of private capital that most international imbalances are financed that way, by private capital movements.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do...

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture – academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a...

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn’t be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I’ve spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.