There cannot be a greater mistake than that of looking superciliously upon practical applications of science. The life and soul of science is its practical application.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

To measure is to know.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

You have what others don't have. This is good news which means you can do what others can't do! You are unique

I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you.

23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

The plaintiff cannot dive into the secret recesses of his (the defendant's) heart.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.