In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

The wisdom of age is bitter when those you have failed have gone.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

Suppose they gave a war, and no one came?

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.