A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves.

I'd rather have fun, being young and being dumb, than be saved a spot in heaven

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

For me the most important thing is to spread the Hindu knowledge about the soul. This is more important than any other knowledge and is my main priority.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

Godliness is sexy in a way that physical attraction can never be.

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.