“The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless”

“Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.”

“Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”