Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Reason is intuition's servant.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.