"The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."
"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition."
"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
"God does not play dice with the universe."
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."
"a purely algebraic physics."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn;for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."