The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

People frequently point to communication as a problem, because its easy to notice, but usually it is a symptom of an underlying problem with a relationship posture.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

The picture itself is a document. How do you mean? We're looking at a document. It gives you clues.

Horror movies can really go one way or the other - they can go amazingly or they can go terribly - and it's generally an extreme, in one way or the other, so you have to be very careful.

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.

Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

I believe in being an innovator.