All Quotes

I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them. ”

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. ”

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. ”

I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore. ”

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ”

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature. ”

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. ”

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. ”

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years. ”

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. ”