Scientific Progress Is Measured In

If You Are Receptive And Humble, Mathematics Will Lead You By The Hand. Again And Again, When I Have Been At A Loss How To Proceed, I Have Just Had To Wait Until I Have Felt The Mathematics Led Me By The Hand. It Has Led Me Along An Unexpected Path, A Path Where New Vistas Open Up, A Path Leading To New Territory, Where One Can Set Up A Base Of Operations, From Which One Can Survey The Surroundings And Plan Future Progress.

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.

I Do Not See How A Man Can Work On The Frontiers Of Physics And Write Poetry At The Same Time. They Are In Opposition. In Science You Want To Say Something That Nobody Knew Before, In Words Which Everyone Can Understand. In Poetry You Are Bound To Say ... Something That Everyone Knows Already In Words That Nobody Can Understand. Commenting To Him About The Poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer Wrote.

I Should Like To Suggest To You That The Cause Of All The Economic Troubles Is That We Have An Economic System Which Tries To Maintain An Equality Of Value Between Two Things, Which It Would Be Better To Recognise From The Beginning As Of Unequal Value.

God Used Beautiful Mathematics In Creating The World.