When I began in 1960, individuality wasn’t an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There’s room for intuition.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

By the mid-’60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

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

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish.

Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It’s a question of how those tools are used by people.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Rather be dead than cool.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.