When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination. "
The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God. '
As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.
We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.