Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.