What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

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