In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.