Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

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

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.