The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.