In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

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.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

To every rule there are diverse sub rules which all apply to the same rule.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Whenever the internal dialogue stops, the world collapses, and extraordinary facets of ourselves surface, as though they had been kept heavily guarded by our words.

The normal food of man is vegetable.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

A belt don't make me.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.