I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

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.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.