The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

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

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.

You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

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.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

When I was a young kid, I did not even dream about playing for my country. It was such a farfetched thing to play for India.

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.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

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

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

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.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.