I feel like there's the 'Hillary standard' and then there's the standard for everybody else.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.
I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.
I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied. . . From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked. . . There was no social life.
And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.