“I can't tell you how many people say they were turned off from science because of a science teacher that completely sucked out all the inspiration and enthusiasm they had for the course.”
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“I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?”
“As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.”
“For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.”
“And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.”
“I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.”
“I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.”
“When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.”
“When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people to perceive us. Life, people and the stories they consciously or unconsciously tell inspire me everyday.”
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
“We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.”
“It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.”
“The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.”
“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.”
“I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.”
“Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.”
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
“I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.”