Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.

The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Whatever makes your balloon red, Swopes.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Frankly, we should publicly increase them [ anti-Russian sanctions ].

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.