Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

It is impossible to solve significant problems using the same knowledge that created them.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.