To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

An unused life is an early death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

A useless life is an early death.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

On all the peaks lies peace.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.