Time is information we don't have. Time is our ignorance.

Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Don't trust your teachers.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.