Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

What we see is the solution to a computational problem, our brains compute the most likely causes from the photon absorptions within our eyes.

The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

The only time an Australian ever walks is when his car runs out of petrol.

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.