I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

You cannot prepare for war and peace at the same time.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.