The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

I'm a very loyal and unreliable friend.

Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.