All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.