Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

Be a voice not an echo.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.