"I live a bourgeois life."

-- Mark Ruffalo

“I guess no matter what your family is like, you're not surprised.”
“...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic, especially in its early stages, is in danger of evaporating into airy nothingness, degenerating, as the Germans say, into an arachnoid film, spun from the stuff that dreams are made of. There is no such danger for pure mathematics; for that is precisely what mathematics ought to be.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1933). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Exact logic (Published papers).. The Simplest mathematics”, Harvard University Press
“The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.”

Source : "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.
“Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.”
“In the case Stone v. Graham, the Supreme Court ruled that - under 'separation of church and state' - it was unconstitutional for a student in school to even see a copy of the Ten Commandments.”
“The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.”
“[Getting the truth in the New York Post has been as] difficult as finding a good hamburger in Albania.”
“We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.”

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