He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.