“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best...” — Goethe Quote

“Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.”

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”

“If I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”

“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”

“If the whole world I once could see”

“My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.”

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

“We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.”

“In pursuit of a meaning higher than life, we get disconnected from simple miracles of nature.”

“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”

“I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.”