Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.

If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us.

I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good

Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.