The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order created by Newton's theory of gravitation...is wholly different. Even if the axioms of the theory are proposed by man, the success of such a project presupposes a high degree of ordering of the objective world.... That is the "miracle" which is being constantly reinforced as our knowledge expands.

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.