Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

Life's a gift, aim for the sky

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Scream" was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Be Briton still to Britain true, Among oursel's united; For never but by British hands Maun British wrangs be righted.