"The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!"Humor
"When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I do not think he will have a good answer for either."Humor
"In my view, the answer must be of a spiritual nature. And I am convinced of that."Faith
"The assumption that any universe is isotropic is now questioned more and more."Science
"The task of science is to understand nature and to learn from it."Science
"All of us, scientists and non-scientists, have been affected by the scientific worldview."Science
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."Fear
"Only a few of us understand science well enough to realize how little we know about the world."Knowledge
"The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece."Faith
"Understanding does not mean that the perceived information is immediately accessible to consciousness."Knowledge
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."Wisdom
"We cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order (and thus in such a way as to be) understandable to minds like ours."Philosophy
"From the scientific standpoint, the idea of a personal God is still something we cannot do without."Faith
"The impenetrable mystery of nature lies not in the complexity of things but in their ultimate simplicity."Nature
"In every culture there is a storehouse of ancient, half-conscious wisdom."Wisdom
"I insist that we must not try to decide whether things 'really' are or are not."Truth