Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

The universe gives birth to consciousness, and consciousness gives meaning to the universe.

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.

If you leave you leaving the best, so you would have to settle for less.

There was never anything that did not proceed from a thought.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.