It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
A man's value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.
One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.
In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." ( , 1953)
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.
I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.
A lot of people thought Steve Jobs was a CEO of Apple but he never was until he came back to Apple in 1997.
I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.
I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.
