. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace
Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone. . . If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.
I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.