Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

To measure is to know.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

In a way, the books were protection. An escape she would always have access to.A sanctuary, there for when she needed it.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.