Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence not mastery.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great none so much needed now.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.

Pursue some path however narrow and crooked in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is I truly believe a genial irreverence toward learning and from that irreverence love may spring.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.