It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.Bill Gates
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.Noam Chomsky
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.Noam Chomsky
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.Noam Chomsky
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.Noam Chomsky
It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.Richard Feynman
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.Richard Feynman