Were I Wrong, One Professor Would Have

The Ordinary Adult Never Gives A Thought To Space-time Problems ... I, On The Contrary, Developed So Slowly That I Did Not Begin To Wonder About Space And Time Until I Was An Adult. I Then Delved More Deeply Into The Problem Than Any Other Adult Or Child Would Have Done.

One Thing I Have Learned In A Long Life: That All Our Science, Measured Against Reality, Is Primitive And Childlike -- And Yet It Is The Most Precious Thing We Have.

Reading, After A Certain Age, Diverts The Mind Too Much From Its Creative Pursuits. Any Man Who Reads Too Much And Uses His Own Brain Too Little Falls Into Lazy Habits Of Thinking.

Nothing Happens Unless Something Moves.

It Is Very Difficult To Explain This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It. The Individual Feels The Nothingness Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Though. He Looks Upon Individual Existence As A Sort Of Prison And Wants To Experience The Universe As A Single Significant Whole.