"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."

"The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple."

"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 …"

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure…"