Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.

To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.

I just admire a funny, confident, sassy woman and hopefully I'm that person.

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

There is a certain amount of momentum that is achieved when one country after another reopens their borders.

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.