I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged - 'There's nothing good in my future' - I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.
The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has the greatest visual acuity of any known animal. Other birds might benefit from the eagle's acute vision, but eyes are ...
William Miller: [on the phone with Dick, talking about Russell] Dick, I got him. He's okay. He is on acid, though. [pause] William Miller: I can't really tell. How do you know when it's kicked in? [Cut to Russell standing on the roof, screaming "I am...
There is no unique picture of reality.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
I put my heart in my work.
Women. They are a complete mystery.
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.
I'm basically a country person.
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
I listen to Christian music.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.
I have made you some things, for when you get back. I understand now, all the baking you sent me, stale and crumbled in brown paper and rough twine. Now you’re away and I am here. So I will make and make until you get back to remind you, and myself...
Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending chur...
It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes p...