If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

Bring them on.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I love being a part of the country-music community.

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

History is written by the victors.

I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I don’t believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I never expected any sort of success with ‚Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world’s major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They’re a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.

Everybody is entertained to death.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.