If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

It would of course be a great step forward if we succeeded in combining the gravitational field and the electromagnetic field into a single structure. Only so could the era in theoretical physics inaugurated by Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell be brought to a satisfactory close.

If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events.

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