History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.

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.

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with the development of our knowledge.

The legs are the wheels of creativity.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.