"Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess."

"When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research."

"Happiness hates the timid! So does science!"

"Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin."

"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'"

"That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!"

"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly."

"There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be."

"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."

"Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'"