I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice but in fact it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look smile or act.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space the more people you have the better.

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor and his head had burst.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.