I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.