It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

The pioneer scientist must have a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination.

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.

It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Science advances one funeral at a time.

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.