I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants

You are not really free, and that is why you do not know what I am talking about.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

The end of the world begins in the sea we love.