It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.