Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

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.

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.

The slow dance of synchronicity begins the moment you are born.

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

No one is so good that they don’t need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can’t receive the grace of the gospel.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.