(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't get even, I get odder.

Insight involves trust - trusting that the information coming through is correct.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect.

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual."

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.