Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.