By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.