I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking

Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.

It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.

I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.