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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

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.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

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

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

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

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

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

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Science is magic that works.

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.