The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
“It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.”
“We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.”
“Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”
“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhrt mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”
“Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you...”
“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capa...”
“In part, that's because when we delay marriage, it's not just women who become independent. It's also men, who, like women, learn to clothe and feed themselves, to clean their homes iron their shir...”