It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

Mere thinking cannot reveal to us the highest purpose.

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.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking