Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.