When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Subtle is the Lord. Malicious, He is not.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

We shall be able to solve the problem when it will be clearly evident to all that there is no other, no cheaper way out of the present situation.

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

The [quantum] theory reminds me a little of the system of delusions of an exceedingly intelligent paranoiac.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit. / Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.