For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?

It is simple, therefore it is beautiful

To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.

Although it is uncertain, it is necessary to make science useful. Science is only useful if it tells you about some experiment that has not been done; it is not good if it only tells you what just went on.

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.