We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

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.

They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other, fate ties them together.

Love is like a shining light in the darkness, closing eyes to pretend you didn't see it will not wash it away.

Thin lips trace bold lines across my skin with a single, lingering kiss.

Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.