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

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.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

We must stand so firmly for the truth so that we do not back down because every movement away from righteousness and God’s truth is similar to death

Never give in to the Darkness. The Light will shower you with gifts, until you let down your guard. The Darkness will only Overbear. Darkness overcomes, Darkness conquers. But Light Destroys.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

I believe that work can be done on security; in combating terrorism in Mexico we have done our part in this area. But at the same time, the world must continue working.