Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

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

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

‚Speed‘ and ‚Point Break‘ were a lot of running and jumping, and then ‚The Matrix Trilogy‘ had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I’ve always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Truth is a pathless land.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

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.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.