I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting.

In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

Ovid

We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.

John Searle

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

Jack Nicholson

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Rodney Dangerfield

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Thomas Henry Huxley

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Ashley Olsen

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth

You can

Scott Sorrell

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

Lord Salisbury

La vita è come le montagne russe. Scendi velocemente, rimani a lungo in basso e risali a fatica.

Jean-Michel Guenassia

Oh, to awake from dreaming!

Virginia Woolf

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather, The Business of