Verba Sapienti

2. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less."
6. "Something unknown is doing we don’t know what."
7. "Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature."
9. "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."
10. "More is different."
11. "The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter."
12. "I have always regarded it as a matter of great importance to find the means of producing results which can be employed in practice."
13. "When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing."
14. "The undevout astronomer must be mad."
16. "The only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter."
17. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
18. "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it."

1. "We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
3. "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool."
4. "The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."
5. "We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature, and cannot deceive."
8. "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."
14. "The universe doesn’t allow perfection."
15. "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."