“I think we should teach them [the people] wonders and that the purpose of knowledge is to appreciate wonders even more.”

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.

The individual member of the social community often receives his information via visual, symbolic channels. I went back and forth over it, and translated. You know what it means? People read.

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

Innovation is a very difficult thing in the real world

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.

The things that mattered were honesty, independence, willingness to admit ignorance.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.

I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go.

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.

A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

All that we behold is full of blessings.