The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The strongest bond in the universe is when two souls unite to become one.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Imagination decides everything.

A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!