Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

If you cannot - in the long run - tell everyone what you have been doing, your doing has been worthless.

No self is of itself alone.

If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian| warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men — and cowards.

Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.