Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.