"when I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas."

“CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY”

“Don't spend...but mend yourself...”

“All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.”

“The consensus is that climate change ranks along with nuclear warfare as the top two risks facing human civilization.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisk". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

“Work is the opposite of creativity.”

“Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.46, Vintage

“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”

“The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.”

Source : SomethingJewish Network Interview, www.somethingjewish.co.uk. December 1, 2001.