He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.