What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.