If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.

There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. I was always taught to ask the first kind.

You know that, according to quantum theory, if two particles collide with enough energy you can, in principle, with an infinitesimal probability, produce two grand pianos.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

There isn't a scientific community. It is a culture. It is a very undisciplined organization.

You could say we run a dating service. If you make a request, we can hook you up with some books that will take you on a date you will never forget.

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

I was fortunate enough to model, but it was always work for me. It was a way to support myself and finance acting classes.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

[Swiss Armi Man] was a super joyful film to go make. I mean, there was stuff that was, like, totally bananas. But it was kind of par for the course every day with that stuff.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.