Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

The Hands create, what the Heart feels!

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.