What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

You are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love. - Keiran

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.