“I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.”

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

There is no unique picture of reality.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?

The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

Love the neighbour. But don’t get caught.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I think the human race doesn’t have a future if we don’t go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die.

I’d say I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid He might hear me.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people.

A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Tycho, we’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.” “We’ll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn’t fail when he tried to.” “Thanks.” Wedge & Tycho

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need ‘regrooving,’ I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.