Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

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'.

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.

Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

Dwell not on the faults and shortcomings of others; instead, seek clarity about your own.

Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal

The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.