The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

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.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

Anything that comes easy may not be worth it.

Acting is not being emotional but being able to express emotion.

To tend unfailingly unflinchingly towards a goal is the secret of success.

What you seek, you already are.

She started drinkin' we weren't thinkin' too straight, she was doing eighty slammed on the brakes. Got so hot we had to pull to the side, did some shakin' 'til the middle of the night.

I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.