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

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

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

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

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

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

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

And yet it moves.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

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.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science – really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I’d be… it’s really, you know, still fascinating for me.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?