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

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.

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.