The trouble with good advice is that it usually interferes with our plans.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.
Hillary Clinton needs to address the racist undertones of her 2008 campaign.
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.