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.

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.

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

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.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.

I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

The hardest part of playing the trumpet is the physical act of making the sound.

Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way

He is not great who is not greatly good.