Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

Religion is not the most important thing.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

Because of their sacred gift of translating and embodying energy, empaths are able to spot their soul mates or twin flames a mile away.

Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Nobody wants anybody who's radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that.

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

The process is the most beautiful part.