There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.