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

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.

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.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

Create life, that allow you to have a free flow from inside. This will happen when you improve your inner world and create life more out of understanding.

Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

I would love, obviously, just to keep doing stand-up. That's the constant. That's the thing that I'm going to do for the rest of my life, but also I would like a TV show at some point.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!