Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

You cannot disturb the tiniest petal of a flower without the troubling of a distant star.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Do not put too much confidence in experimental results until they have been confirmed by theory.

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

If you change the atmosphere, You can change the outcome!

In this life at least, Our fate is rarely epic.Maybe just as well, Impervious heroes we are not…

No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is...No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive.

Don't apologize. You don't have to explain yourself. I choose you. I want you.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

I think George Bush is going to win in a walk. I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004.