The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.

Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?