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

The game I play is a very interesting one. It’s imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

All mass is interaction.

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself.

I’m smart enough to know that I’m dumb.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough.

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.

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.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I’ve never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I’m the same now.

To be honest, I’ve only been to one concert, and it was Aerosmith. Aerosmith and Slash.

There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?