The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Every cause produces more than one effect.