Wherever there are qualities there are likewise quantities, but not always vice versa.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

Look at children... If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

Childhood, whose very happiness is love.

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.