It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.