The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field.

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

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.