There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.

Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.