Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.

...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.

The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.