This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of Newton. Refering to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.