Quotes About Exploration

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

I need physics more than friends.

We're always, by the way, in fundamental physics, always trying to investigate those things in which we don't understand the conclusions. After we've checked them enough, we're okay.

Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

Sheets of sound. Well, that was when I got tired of certain modulations. Like when you want to get back to C, and you've got to go to D and then G and then C. I was fooling around with the piano, and I figured out some other way to do it.

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.

I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.

When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to boogie-woogie.

The things I do outside of playing the piano are done out of an inner necessity, not just because I want to try my hand at different things.

A couple of my friends had guitars, and I remember messing with them, but I was often intimidated by it. I think I sat down at a piano once when I was really young, but that was it.

I write on the acoustic guitar, I write some on the piano, but I've been messing around with these guitar pedals and drum machines, educating myself in that world.

I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

We send messages all the time, free of charge. There's a big shell out there now, 80 light-years around us. A civilization only a little more advanced than we are can pick those things up.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.