But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

The world of the quark has everything to do with a jaguar circling in the night.

If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively.

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror or combing her hair.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

Because I cannot rely on myself, I rely on Him, twenty-four hours a day.

It's hard to fall in love with somebody, and then break up and not have feelings for that same person.