We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

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.

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 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.

Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.

Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love that's essential.

Kosovo is now the biggest problem confronting Yugoslavia.

His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.

You can be who you will,” he repeated. His voice softened. “And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.

There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

As a woman, I have no country