Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.
Thoughts are steered in different ways.
The Goal is the keep the GOAL the GOAL
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.
Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.