Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

More depended on the student than on the school.

When you read about chemistry and physics, you want to do them too.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Library science was the foundation of all sciences.

You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside.

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

To die trying is the proudest humans thing.

Wherever you are, be there with love. Be there with compassion, kindness, and gratitude. Smile and show you care.

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for thinking that the Sun, which is a million times the size of Earth, orbits Earth.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

Nothing is ever in such short supply at a race track as time. It doesn't seem to matter whether we are at the track for a race meeting or for testing - there is never enough time.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

I don't think any Australian will ever forget, there will never be a Carbon Tax under a government I lead.

What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.