Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow