Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

I know he wasn’t perfect…But he did the best impression of it I’ve ever seen.

It is better to love and lose than to hurt and win.

To know your future, turn to the Lord in prayer

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

There is no limit or borderline to achieving whatever you are set-out to achieve in life”.

I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.

The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.