Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Don't trust your teachers.

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.

What does what we know or don't know have to do with the laws that govern the world?

Once again, the world seems to be less about objects than about interactive relationships.

Time is information we don't have. Time is our ignorance.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

To the very last, the desire to challenge oneself and understand more. And to the very last: doubt.

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

You ought to pray for a strong heart and then you can endure all things.

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

We’re not exactly heavenly angels. More like prison inmates with wings.

The outgroup is rocks.

Maybe if I have another baby [I will grow my hair], because your hair grows super fast. I'll just grow it out and go natural for a minute.

Again and again the Church of Christ has been all but engulfed, as men might have deemed, in the billows; again and again the storm has been calmed by the Master, Who had seemed for awhile to sleep.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

being funny is a way of being liked and a way of dealing with sadness.