The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made to the head of his department at Caltech.]

Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to pay bills, not to let my house neglected and to hear the radio concert for an hour.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious th

Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

My next climb is going to be a tourist troll in a wheelchair.

Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do without her.

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.