"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing."

"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."

"A stale mind is the devil's breadbox."

"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

"In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards."

"Any time you pull down a fence, always ask why it was put there in the first place."

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."

"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?"

"No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous."

"Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General."

"And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after."

"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."