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I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;

Be wise with speed;

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.

Never forget what I believe was observed to you by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.

Our meddling intellect

A perfect woman; nobly planned,

She was a phantom of delight.

A violet by a mossy stone

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned,

In common things that round us lie

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

And by the vision splendid

The rainbow comes and goes,