“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”

“[I do not believe] in a personal God, let alone a Christian God.”

“The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Rela...”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

“The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.”

“New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unit...”

“Reflection is an all-consuming, in-depth, and serious thought process that is required in a paradigm shift.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”