A Physical Law Must Possess Mathematical Beauty.

If We Are Honest - And Scientists Have To Be - We Must Admit That Religion Is A Jumble Of False Assertions, With No Basis In Reality.

I Admired Bohr Very Much. We Had Long Talks Together, Long Talks In Which Bohr Did Practically All The Talking.

I Think It Is The General Rule That The Originator Of A New Idea Is Not The Most Suitable Person To Develop It, Because His Fears Of Something Going Wrong Are Really Too Strong... At Age 69.

It Is More Important To Have Beauty In One's Equations Than To Have Them Fit Experiment... It Seems That If One Is Working From The Point Of View Of Getting Beauty In One's Equations, And If One Has Really A Sound Insight, One Is On A Sure Line Of Progress. If There Is Not Complete Agreement Between The Results Of One's Work And Experiment, One Should Not Allow Oneself To Be Too Discouraged, Because The Discrepancy May Well Be Due To Minor Features That Are Not Properly Taken Into Account And That Will Get Cleared Up With Further Developments Of The Theory.

The Measure Of Greatness In A Scientific Idea Is The Extent To Which It Stimulates Thought And Opens Up New Lines Of Research.