Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

Children aren't fooled. They know we give time to the things we love.

We need music to restore the human spirit

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!