A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try.

By compassion one can be brave.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

Words have no word for words that are not true.