I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.