"You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."

"It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope."

"I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit."