God always takes the simplest way.

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.

I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.