I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.
I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.
The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.
Why is there something rather than nothing?
They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.