A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Remember that you are here for more than a bunch of flesh.

I know you miss me but what do you do about that?

It is not about how much activity we are capable of doing but how we are performing the activity that makes the difference.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

I don't see race. I don't see color.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.