The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty ...

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.