"In my entire scientific life, extending over forty-five years, the most shattering experience has been the realization that an exact solution of Einstein's equations of general relativity, discovered by the mathematician Roy Kerr, provides the absolutes which I had only speculated about."
"The pursuit of science is more than a technical matter; it is a way of life that includes the possibility of learning something new."
"Truth is like a vast landscape in the distance; we can point to it, but we cannot touch it."
"What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end we do not want to listen?"
"The simple philosophical fact is that some objects are experienced as more beautiful than others."