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

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.

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

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.

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. "Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

America is the world's top war-master

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.