The world is my country. Science my religion.

I do not believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably.

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet.

One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves.

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

It's evident God had no design to make a particular Enumeration in the Holy Scriptures, of all the Works of his Creation.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.

I do not mind at all that Newton is not a Cartesian provided he does not offer us suppositions like that of attraction.

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

Today-be the sunshine in someone's life.

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.