We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

Gravitational systems are the ashes of prior electrical systems.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection.

The development of Nikola Tesla's ideas by corporate governments has created a sick and dangerous world.

Strive to be active rather than lethargic—determined rather than wavering or lazy.

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

Love not often, but forever.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.