Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.

Preconceived ideas are like searchlights which illumine the path of the experimenter and serve him as a guide to interrogate nature. They become a danger only if he transforms them into fixed ideas-this is why I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.