The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle which is a bunch of crap.

Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.

I probably have the worst wardrobe. It's the most ill-fitting with the worst patterns and colors and the most nipple rubbage. There's bad chafing and it's always tight in all the wrong places. What's sad is that I'm kinda getting used to it.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes which was just wrong as it gave me a sad puppy-eyed look.

I'm not religious I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right doesn't mean it's wrong but we have to respect their opinion.

What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong have respect for my people my family my nation and mankind.

My government you can be assured will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

In the mean time I worship God laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands even if he's wrong. Than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

That you may retain your self-respect it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

My great religion is a belief in the blood the flesh as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship I didn't want to be in the wrong one.