John Quotes
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
The constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
A carbonated wine foisted upon Americans (who else would drink it?) by winery ad agencies as a way of getting rid of inferior champagne by mixing it with inferior burgundy.
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.
Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.
There's something about watching an animal that puts you in contact with where we came from and what we're still a part of.
I can never do better than 'Fawlty Towers,' whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'
I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.
I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to IQ, provided you're intelligent above a certain minimal level.
The open mode is a mood in which curiosity for its own sake can operate, because we're not under pressure to get a specific thing done properly. We can play.
I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.
All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?
The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.
For those wondering how to deal with anxiety and depression, the first thing to consider is what you're putting into your mouth.
I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.
