"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."

"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."

"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."

"I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating."

"Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us."

"Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."