Jacob Bronowski

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.