“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certai...” — Adam Smith Quote

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”

“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”

“All money is a matter of belief.”

“And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.”

“Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school”

“I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.”

“Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.”

“We want union with something, even if the opposite seems true.  Bring two atomic nuclei together and their positive electrostatic forces will repel each other, but, with the patience and strength of the blind god of the galaxies, there comes a point where something bigger takes over and welds them together. Physicists call it the Strong Nuclear Force; I’ve called this magic glue God. All the elements heavier than hydrogen were so formed, forged in the great hearts of the stars: sulphur, potassium, gold, radium. Everything you can think of.”