“You can’t have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.”

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.

I try to identify myself with the atoms. I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Science is the search for truth.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.

Science is the search for truth – it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force, of nuclear bombs — there is the power of good, of morality, of humanitarianism.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

The only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Don Siegel last advice to me was ‘Don’t short yourself.’ He said the tendency is when an actor’s directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you’re going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you’re satisfied with it.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

Don’t forget any affront done to you and to all our people, the time of revenge will come and must be put to good use.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.