The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.