More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.

You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm, and I feel uncertain whether I am in general on the right track.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.