"The world is full of people who are trying to figure out what's going on, and they're all wrong."

"The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting."

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing…"

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."

"I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, 'Look how beautiful it is,' and I'll agree. Then he says, 'You see, as a scient…"