Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

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

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love – almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Time discovers truth.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I’m someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Respect the burden.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

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

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

I respect Soulja Boy.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

It is right to give every man his due.