I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature not by other feelings.

If one day you have to choose between the world and love, remember this: If you choose the world you’ll be left without love, but if you choose love, with it you will conquer the world

Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.