The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

God will reward you, ' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.

Victory is produced by and belongs to all.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

We are all today being monitored in advance and in criminal suspicion. And I think that's terrifying, and deeply illiberal as concept. And that's something that we should reject.

This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.

I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

God is not a thing to be achieved, but a thing to be.