“Let the light within me salute the light that is within you. Namaste.”

“Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.”

“Oh phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your hat to... To find that phosphorescence, that light within — is the genius behind poetry.”

“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind -- even if your voice shakes.”

“Dare to stand before those you fear and speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”

“The question I hoped to answer,was how much mechanics Aristotle had known, how much he had left for people such as Galileo and Newton to discover. Given that formulation, I rapidly discovered that Aristotle had known almost no mechanics at all... that conclusion was standard and it might in principle have been right. But I found it bothersome because, as I was reading him, Aristotle appeared not only ignorant of mechanics, but a dreadfully bad physical scientist as well. About motion, in particular, his writings seemed to me full of egregious errors, both of logic and of observation.”

“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”