Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

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.

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

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.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

The well of knowledge will never run dryAs long as you have the wisdom to seek and the courage to try

The passion in the heart of God is to be established

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Not those who shout 'satyagraha', 'satyagraha' will do satyagraha, but those who will work for it.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.