I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.