There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

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.

Many people know they're working, but not what they're working.

Ignorance is worse than authorization.

There's a new kind of woman out there…She doesn't have time to shop anymore. She wants to know what and why and where and how.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

As much as you can eat healthy, it's also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

Less oft peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.

Love amazes, but it does not surprise.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.