I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I love to take, process and share photos – it fills me up.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Research is creating new knowledge.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

And yet it moves.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I only act from my heart.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

Quarks came in a number of varieties – in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks – they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

If I could, I would not do anything else. I’d just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don’t even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

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.

I love movement. I love moshing.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I believe in singing.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

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.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I do my job like I breathe.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

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.

Music is really driving my whole life.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

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

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.