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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are they are they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent being toward God.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

Shame is an ornament of the young; a disgrace of the old.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. - credited to Sophie Arnould,

Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

As quickly as the ice vanishes when the Father unlooses the frost fetters and unwounds the icy ropes of the torrent.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.