The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a child as that, let alone the woman she promised to become.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

Vic Armstrong is, of course, a legend

At the moment of waking up, before getting out of bed, get in touch with your breath

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.