The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

For me a simple message, to think and act with courage, independence and imagination.

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.