This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. – Leonard Bernstein
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time – Leonard Bernstein
The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. – Leonard Bernstein
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. – Leonard Bernstein
Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply given, elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. – Paul Davies