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.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

I always start a painting with the sky.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

In the 80's we had high, high, waisted pants, that if they came up any higher they'd have to go up another size, if you know what I mean.

Idling has always been my strong point.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.