What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of…

The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

— Charles H. Townes

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often…

— W. H. Auden

World leaders need to approach the problems in the Middle East and northern Africa with imaginative ideas such as those that created the E.U.

— Pete Hoekstra

Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces…

— Jay Leno

When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense of responsibility…

— Werner Herzog

On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions…

— C. D. Innes

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My gift is…

— David Hare

I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to…

— Jacques Lipchitz

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how…

— John Hurt

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary…

— Edith Schaeffer

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is…

— Margaret Atwood

I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm…

— Tom Hiddleston

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative…

— Robert Hewison