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

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

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.

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

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

To enter the door of greatness you need the key of faith.

I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

When I used to live in Asia, they used to say, "If you're going to sing karaoke, you want to go after the worst singer." And I'd be coming in Deutsche Telekom after the worst singer.

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker.... but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.

I like to think I'm just talkin' in my defense.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.