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.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.