It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. Its my partner. – Jonas Salk
Im carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get Okaaaaaay, honey. I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant. – Kristen Bell
See, what youre meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, arent you? Well, Ive always had fast cars. Its not that. Its the fear that youre past your best. Its the fear that the stuff youve done in the past is your best work. – Robbie Coltrane
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers