I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
The infinite we shall do right away. The finite may take a little longer.
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.
Whatever is worth saying, can be stated in fifty words or less.
One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.
The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.
Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.
The last thing I wanted to do was blow up another school.
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
Returning is the movement of the Way.