Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Every part of Nigeria is blessed.

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

If you eat one less candy bar or donut a day, you're doing your body some good.

To be completely enlightened means that you're a Buddha.I don't speak of enlightenment.