Quotes about "Happiness & Joy"

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before. ”

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition. ”

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution. ”

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. ”

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography! ”

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing. ”

Happiness is no respecter of persons. ”

But happiness is no respecter of persons. ”

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well. ”

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking. ”