An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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.