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Magic is antiphysics, so it can't really exist. But is shares one thing with science. I can explain the principle behind a good science experiment in 15 seconds; the same way with magic.

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.

[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

What do I want to do with my life?

Celebrate your own special spirit fly on the wings of your secret dreams

Keep your lies short and simple.

The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.