Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi...
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly...
If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself...
We're as clever as we think we are but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn...
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is the wildest of...
The central task of science is to arrive stage by stage at a clearer...
I suggest that the introductory courses in science at all levels from grade...
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may...
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from...
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most...
I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and...
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the...
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to...
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed I agree with you.
The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music...
I didn't really see the British punk movement if that's what it was as...
One and the same thing can at the same time be good bad and indifferent...
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I...