Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.