A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.