There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

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.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.