Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.

The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability