For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Taiki was watching the kings talk, feeling the kind of happiness that can only come after a long sorrow.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo.

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

I hadn't the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.