To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness.

You are all so good and I wish I were better. Now get out of here because I want to be where you are.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Nobody's changing what you've got. You get to keep it.

Before Simon could answer, he heard the sound of the front door opening. He looked daggers at Jace. "That's my roommate. Kyle. Be nice." Jace smiled charmingly. "I'm always nice.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

I wish they would take me as I am.