Andy Kaufman's mom wanted a girl, his father wanted a boy, and they were both satisfied!
The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he [Woody Harrelson] really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.
It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U. S and around the world.
In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range