Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

My rule is, when you are unhappy, think about it. But when you're happy, don't. Why spoil it? You're probably happy for some ridiculous reason and you'd just spoil it to know it.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? ...What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it.

That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature.

Know how to solve every problem that has been solved.