Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

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.

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection

Creativity is leading the life king-size, despite you being a pauper!

I'm just the annoying person who's like "Hi! My name is Alanna! Do you want to chat?"

After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

My mum told me that I have a gift, but it doesn't make me better than others

Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

You are never really with a person unless you are alone with him.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.