Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.

I am not young enough to know everything.

All the limitative theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally.

It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

The objective world simply is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling upward along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.