Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.

The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.

Looking at something changes it.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.