Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.