Quotes About Freedom

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

If you love something, let it go. If it does not come back it was not yours to began with.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Pilots are drawn to flying because it's a perfect combination of science, romance and adventure.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.