"I wish ghosts were real!"

“When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.”

“Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.”

Source : Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.28, Vintage

“The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.”

“If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.”

“I don't think anybody was ever up 6-2 and would lose the tiebreaker”

“You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.”

“Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.”

“Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation