K.M. Randall Quotes

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

Basically, I wasn't properly socialized, so it made sense to do physics.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

When I got up I stuck to my plan - stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

He who frames the question wins the debate.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

Truth has within it the seeds of its own victory; Lies have within them the seeds of their own destruction.

When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?

One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.

We can't tell our life from our wish

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got the guts to go on.

I don't think Christians should use birth control. You consummate your marriage as often as you like - and if you have babies, you have babies.

What I've been doing in practice will carry over into the game.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough

I was once knocked out by a Mexican bantamweight - six of my pals were swinging him around by his heels at the time.

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.