Self-confidence is an important ingredient that makes for a successful physicist.

When things get tough, there are two things that make life worth living: Mozart, and quantum mechanics

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

It was absolutely marvelous working for Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain.

Science has become adult; I am not sure whether scientists have.

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Be happy! God sees in you another God. God sees you as another God. God sees you and He as One.