Nature...does not act by means of many things when it can do so by means of a few.

Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.

Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom.

To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

When you are on top of your game you don’t have to talk about it, the world will do that for you.

Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

I don’t know what you’re feeling, I won’t even pretend

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

The only way for me to give a good performance is to make myself extremely uncomfortable - and it just so happens that being on stage makes me extremely uncomfortable.