I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.

One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.