Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.