“The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.”

“To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.”

“Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.”

“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”

“I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.”

“In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more...”

“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”

“Not all doors open in the same direction and with the same effort!”

“It was in the horizon of existence, that the Big Bang must have created our souls, we loved each other like the plane of time doesn't hold a fleck of control over us.”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”