The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.

The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.

By His words and His example, Christ has shown us how to draw closer to Him.

In my bands, I don't really walk around telling people what to play, just out of respect really. I mean, if there's something I feel in my gut, I'll bring it up.

There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.