Science clears the fields on which technology can build.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

I guess I could have a couple of secrets.

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Trying on jeans is my favorite thing. Maybe later I can get a pap smear from an old male doctor.

Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.