"Every known fact in natural science was..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”

“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”

“Reality is a sliding door.”

“There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true.”

“If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him.”

“Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown.”

“Common sense is the best prophet.”

“I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.”

“Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.”