You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

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

The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.

I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it

The leaves and the light are one.

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants,’ has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of life’s hardships, my own and others’, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in part, gives humour its due.