Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.