What really matters for me is ... the more active role of the observer in quantum physics ... According to quantum physics the observer has indeed a new relation to the physical events around him in comparison with the classical observer, who is merely a spectator.

For quite a while I have set for myself the rule if a theoretician says 'universal' it just means pure nonsense.

If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet.

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

The layman always means, when he says "reality" that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.

How can one avoid despondency if one thinks of the anomalous Zeeman effect?

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!