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

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.

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.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

If words come alive on the page, the writer succeeds in connecting to the reader.

Our problems may tower over us, but God towers over our problems.

Stupid questions will never exist and won't ever exist.

I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt.

I don't know what's going to happen. I take it day by day, playing my music.

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Violence often brings about momentary results.

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.