Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

Science advances funeral by funeral

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

Insight must precede application.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

Everyone needs help from everyone else.

I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.

I never started from ideas but always from character.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.