In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Another occupation might have been better.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.