“If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.”

“Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.”

“Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.”

“Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.”

“All knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.”

“A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.”

“Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true”