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You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.
A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.
I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.
He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist.
Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain.
NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.
I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!
You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
You must learn to deal with your own beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with them indirectly.
In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
Once the jazz musician learns all the fundamentals they can keep track of a lot of choices in an instant.
Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.
Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.
But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference.
As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.
We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.
It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.
The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.
We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.
As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.
I put a lot of weight on feelings and am weirdly in touch with them, which is not typical for an engineer.
Playing around with other people's husbands when you were 17 was bad news. Yes, I was a very naughty girl.
If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity.
A woman has a responsibility and a privilege that a man doesnt have of given birth to another human being.
We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.
The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.
Inspiring children at an early age is key, and perhaps we need to put technology in a more social context.