The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely among them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.

The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a little hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

The truth knocks on your door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.