It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

The true Logic for this world is the Calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.

Upward and Onward

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.

Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.

I'm going to be so normal that when people look up normal in the dictionary, my name will be there.