“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”

“We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and.”

“Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.”

“The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.”

“An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.”

“I believe that there are 15,747,724,136,275,02,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.”

“Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.”