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My focus is not on solving nature’s deeper mysteries. It is on using nature’s deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Don’t just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Vanity is but the surface.