Science is nothing but perception.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I only see clearly what I remember.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I need physics more than friends.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.