If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.