"I would not think that philosophy and reason themselves will be man's guide in the foreseeable future; however, they will remain the most beautiful sanctuary they have always been for the select few."
"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."