The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.