Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

To shine is better than to reflect.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't get even, I get odder.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

What if destiny doesn't care?

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Show me someone without an ego, and I'll show you a loser - having a healthy ego, or high opinion of yourself, is a real positive in life!

Do you wish the world were better? Let me tell you what to do: Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

The desire to be significant casts a pall.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.