Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Adele shattered the image of how the stereotypical singer is supposed to look. She has that whole 'Screw you, I'm awesome for what I do' attitude, which I really look up to and want to be a part of.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

Turns out, not where, but who you're with that really matters.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.

What the mind can believe, you can achieve.

There is a god within us, and the heavens Have intercourse with earth; from realms above That spirit comes.