A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off. '
I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life that the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.
It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.
Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.
When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
You know what I miss? More than anything? Coffee. -- Plutarch Heavensbee
When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.
I can say that it's 10 miles from my home to Trinity, when in fact that's not quite right, it's off by about 10%, but nobody would say that I'm telling a lie or making a mistake when I rounded off because that's the way we speak and rounded off terms regularly.