Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Consciousness ... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).

Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.

If you pray, you can endure any pain.

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers.

in my dreamsi need not to die everyday to be free

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

Peace is the result of an inner state of harmony. It is not obtained by eliminating anything external, it is inside ourselves that we must find and suppress the causes of war.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.