Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

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

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Actor’s life is very long.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Becoming a writer is not a ‚career decision‘ like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don’t choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you’re not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

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

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.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

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.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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

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

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

Never take anything for granted.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

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

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

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.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.