Idealism is the highest form of reason.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

Hurry wounds a questioning soul.

My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.

A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.