Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Kevin J. Anderson

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

Dhani Harrison

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

John Donne

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Albert Einstein

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

Francois Mauriac

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

Bertrand Russell

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well I'm not a good terrified person.

Stevie Nicks

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life.

Hermann Hesse

It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Jerry Brown