Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

In the company of the Soul's inner guidance, let us celebrate all we are destined to know.

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

Interviewing is not a democratic art.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

We know more than we can tell.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.