Erwin Schrodinger — "Quantum mechanics is a wonderful theory. But it is not the last word."

"The world is a canvas, and we are the artists."

"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."

"If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men —…"

"If you ask a theoretical physicist today, ‘What is an electron?’ he will probably say, ‘It is a symbol in the wave equation.’ We have got so far from the concrete picture of nature."

"The future of mankind depends on the wisdom of its leaders. And that is a very frightening thought."