It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?

Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!

ELVIS & MARILYN:The deader they get -the more money they make.

If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

You prefer not to see the gears of the clock, as to better tell time.

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.