The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Though I’m tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can’t claim me.In a way I’m stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

I don't consider myself attractive. I'm an academic, and in academia, people will write you off if you look younger.

Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.

I think Red Sox fans have always been good to me; they've treated me well.

Advertising signs: they con you into thinking you're the one That can do what's never been done That can win what's never been won Meantime life outside goes on all around you

But people do the same thing with the Bible. They memorize all the fictional characters, the parameters and the rules of the game and think it's important, but I can't get excited about that myself.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

My goal is to forever do stand up.