We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

Who will observe the observers?

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.

In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

One day, I just wandered into a dance class full of girls, and that was it. I thought, 'Hang on! I'll have a bit of this.' I went back a week later and got dragged up by the teacher. It wasn't a massive calling.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.