"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."

"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."

"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA."

"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie."

"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."

"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."