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“...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.”
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“If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.”
Source : "Before Turning the Gun on Himself". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, 2012.
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“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
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“First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.”
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“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
Source : Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895. 
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“That which you seek, is causing you to seek.”
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“The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.”
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“Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.”
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“It's just a spare room in my apartment. It's very cluttered and not particularly aesthetically inspiring, and it's very un-noise-proof.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.”
Source : Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
