Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.