"For I am the spirit that denies! And rightly too; for all that doth begin should rightly to destruction run; 'twere better then that naught should be."

"I am an iconoclast. I have no respect for dogma."

"I hereby commit myself, my life, my fortune, my sacred honor, to the Great Work."

"The boundaries between science and magic are artificial and illusory."

"The only true magic is science, and the only true science is magic."