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.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.