Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that.

With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a dream – I was surprised to find it happening.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.