Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations.
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.
I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them.
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea!
If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.
