Keep working. Don't wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.

No man is so good as to be free from all evil, nor so bad as to be worth nothing.

The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it - and if you don't, you die.

Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses.

Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.