The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the uncanny reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

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