Where there is matter, there is geometry.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

Negative friends are almost as destructive to your life as your negative thoughts and beliefs.

Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

Since dictating the Bible, and hiring a perfect race of ministers to explain it, God has never done much but creep around and try to catch us disobeying it.

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.