Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves, which is the same thing nowadays.

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."