Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.