There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.

Math teaches us chaos or order, for god sake?

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.