Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.