Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.