Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

No two snowflakes are alike.

I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

Of all the forms of water the tiny six-pointed crystals of ice called snow are incomparably the most beautiful and varied.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Reality has a way of injuring people who don't take it seriously. If you don't believe in gravity, for example, and then step off a tall building, you won't just float away.

Just talk to me as a father ... not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Enjoy life. And be careful what you pray for - remember, you will get it all.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

I said: I must remember this, being small.