“Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.”

“There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.”

“The longness and shortness of the present moment can be recognized by utilizing a big image of the moon, which is reflecting on the surface of the ocean, and a small image of the moon on the surface of a cup of water, or in another example the very wide scale of the whole sky itself, and the very narrow space of the moon, which is shining in the sky.”

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”

“The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”