The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Waves from moving sources: Adagio. Andante. Allegro moderato.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.

The more we understand the One Idea, how all of life is interconnected and interdependent, the more we can act in positive ways for the good of all.

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

Life is very short; be willing to serve.

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

We can't have happiness if we cause others unhappiness.