The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
When I was young, I was a kid that never stopped. I wanted to do everything; a lot of energy. I didn't have this big hair. But I was a happy person.
I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.
The happiest moments of my childhood were when my toys broke, because then I could destroy them with impunity.
The ways in which mankind tends to invent technology is because we have this drive to create and to innovate, and we don't necessarily pump the brakes when we're doing it.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.
My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.
It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.
Mad science is my middle name.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.
Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised how far out you can go when you are by yourself.
Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.
Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
You're fearless when you're a kid.
