Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.