In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right. They want your vote, but they don’t want you to know their plan.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

There is no wealth but life.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Affluence means influence.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Global energy security is a vital part of America’s national security.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

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.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

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

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.