If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.

You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Nothing happens til something moves.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.