Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.

God is Man's greatest invention

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.

One may ask the question as to the extent to which the quest for beauty is an aim in the pursuit of science. . . . It is, indeed, an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature. What is intelligible is also beautiful.

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.