... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Education is what is left after all that has been learnt is forgotten.

Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuous development of new concepts.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

A fermented mind - according to nothing, we are something.

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

Although most of us realize what we control and do not control, we live as though we do not really know, and in some cases we spend years focusing on things we cannot control.

In the case of an airplane, speed is determined by the outcome of the conflict between thrust of the power and drag of the plane. So it also is with humans.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Certainly science should continue to see whether we can find evidence for multiverses that might explain why our own universe seems to be so finely tuned.