Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.