–  Imagination is more important than knowledge.

–  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

–  If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research.

–  He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing more than an act of murder.

–  Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

–  Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

–  The important thing is not to stop questioning.

–  Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

–  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.  It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.  Never lose a holy curiosity.

–  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

–  Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing

that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Copyright © 2002 by Peter Holzer. All rights reserved.
Revised: 04/07/03 12:31:37 -0700.