"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
"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."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."
"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."