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

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

I’ve never had writer’s block.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band – or at least in a Pixies cover band.

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.

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 have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

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

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

Life is a song to me.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.