To shine is better than to reflect.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

I don't get even, I get odder.

But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.

Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees, Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.

The greatest fulfillment, personal development.

It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. That’s what extreme diversity does to us.

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Read Blake or go to hell, that's my message to the modern world.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.