"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
"I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."