...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Necessity is the mother of all invention.

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.