Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Seeing is not always believing.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

I’m an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody’s energy. But I give it back.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

I don’t easily fall for lies, I can see through things.

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

You can’t generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

I really don’t believe in magic.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

In the future, you won’t buy artists‘ works; you’ll buy software that makes original pieces of ‚their‘ works, or that recreates their way of looking at things. You could buy a Shostakovich box, or you could buy a Brahms box. You might want some Shostakovich slow-movement-like music to be generated. So then you use that box.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.