Science advances one funeral at a time.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No, the adversaries eventually die off, and the upcoming generation is familiarised anew with the truth.

The history of all times and nations teaches us that exactly in the naïve, unshakable belief, furnished by religion in active life of believers, originate the most intense motives for the most significant creative performance, not only in the field of arts and sciences but also in politics.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.