The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

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.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

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

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

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

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

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

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn’t reduce to physics. So it’s just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Revolutions go not backward.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

God always takes the simplest way.

I don’t want a brat on my team.

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.

Change in all things is sweet.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

What we achieve individually is important but it’s never ever more than the team does.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

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.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Africa is on the rise.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.