Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

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.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

My mom always used to say, "You'll be a better kid if you just listen."

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

If one of us is chained, none of us are free...