If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.

If you can't say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

The best thing that can happen to a human being us to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

What do we do now, now that we are happy?

I'm attacking the basket more. Because I'm more comfortable on the line, that's an area I want to get to.

Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.