What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Science is not about what’s true. It’s about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.
The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.
We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.
I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.
As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.
Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.
What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.
As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.
There is a side of the Moon which we never see, but that hidden half is as potent a factor in causing the ebb and flow of the Earth's tide as the part of the Moon which is visible.
