"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
"The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth."