One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.

I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application.

I grow increasingly aware, and in more ways than expected that I am at the center of my own field; and whether it be folly or wisdom, it is a very pleasant feeling.

Maxwell's theory is Maxwell's system of equations.

From the outset Maxwell's theory excelled all others in elegance and in the abundance of the relations between the various phenomena which it included.

You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it."Never.

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

All of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

Read books. They are good for us.

Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.