Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.