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.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

Science is magic that works.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

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.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

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

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 universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can’t solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Life is short, the art long.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

I could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.