I've always thought that less was a lot more..

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns..

I talk by playing, not by words..

Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method..

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in ….

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy..

Oh, am I wearing an ascot? I didn't notice..

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experie….

No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrac….

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past..

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope..

Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and L….

... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training an….

Nothing exists but him..

One of my guiding principles is don't do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that….

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God..

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves..

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish those properties b….

I see I have made myself a slave to Philosophy, but if I get free of Mr. Linus's business I will resolutely bid adew to it eternally, excepting for w….

Everything is dead while it lives..

Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about n….