There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Whether we like it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.
I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word ‘understanding.
Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into the whole.
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.