Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires.