Do not destroy what you cannot create.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Three stages of truth for scientists: It's not true. If it is true, it's not very important. We knew it all along.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

I'm looking for a market for wisdom.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

A satirist is never certain whether he/she will be acclaimed or punished.

From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.