I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

We can celebrate how far we've come from our sexist past when women and men are equally represented in the pages of science fiction anthologies.

There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.