Archived Quotes

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple,

and may, as a rule,

be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

All the world is full of suffering.

It is also full of overcoming.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Friendship is born at that moment

when one person says to another,

‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rap is really just too conventional.

Everybody does the same thing.

No one ever pushes the box.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet.

Try to make sense of what you see, and

wonder about what makes the universe exist.

Be curious

Life is like a sewer…

what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of

millions and millions of atoms...

For example,

I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

I do not believe that civilization

will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.

Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

One never notices what has been done;

one can only see what remains to be done.

Look in the mirror;

that's your competition.

No matter how much cats fight,

there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The first problem for all of us,

men and women,

is not to learn,

but to unlearn.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Vulnerability is strength,

not weakness.

It’s okay to be confused;

confusion is the route to discovery.