When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If you change the environment, you change the people.