There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

Exercise invigorates the body and sharpens the mind.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters had become a regular thing. She didn't have any close friends, didn't go out on dates, didn't even go to the movies by herself. She had sacrificed a normal life in order to get a PhD, and become a scientist.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid - and will be universally accepted - only if it can be reproduced by others, and thereby independently verified. The impersonal rigor of the method has produced enormously powerful results for 400 years. The scientific method is utterly apolitical. A truth in science is verifiable whether you are black or white, male or female, old or young. It’s verifiable whether you know the experimenter, or whether you don’t.