“The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from one angle, during a portion of their life, can adopt new ideas only with difficulty.”

“Nothing is born, nothing dies.”

“We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for ...”

“Languages are true analytical methods.”

“I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.”

“We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for t...”

“If you are in motion than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are emotional than you are in an agitated state.”

“All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still”

“If you are in ‘motion’ than you are in a normal [moving] state, and if you are ‘emotional’ than you are in an agitated state.”

“It is a beautiful gift to be a creator.”

“Then, the massive hands lifted the new people up to a pair of giant indescribable lips and whispered, in a fundamentally untranslatable Creator-language, something that meant, approximately: THIS T...”

“You are the creator of your world.”

“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

“First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.”

“The saxophone is the cocaine of the woodwind family, the sax teacher continues. Saxophonists are admired because they are dangerous, because they have explored a darker, more sinister side of thems...”