The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.