A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.

Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you're going to be successful. The beauty of the motion picture business is that you can make a little movie like 'Driving Miss Daisy' or 'Rain Man' and go right through the roof. This business is still about creative juices, and size is no guarantee of that.

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.

I'm just not comfortable with that society stuff. I mean, we were just invited to the White House, but my husband won't take me because he knows I don't want to go.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

How can you simply be friends with someone when every time you look at them youre thinking about how much more you really want

Wishing for something without tirelessly working for it, is like trying to drive a car that has no fuel in it.

Water is the most basic of all resources. Civilizations grew or withered depending on its availability.

I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music.

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.

Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.

This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

The family of God is the choir and God is their audience.