Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

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