What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

God is a scientist, not a magician.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.