Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.

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 don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

The pine is the mother of legends.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?