1. “There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”
2. “The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.”
3. “Whenever we proceed from the known into unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word understanding.”
4. What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning”.”
5. “The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.”
6. “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.”
7. “Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows.”
8. “Whether we lie it or not, modern ways are going to alter and in part destroy traditional customs and values.”
9. “Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”
10. “Whoever dedicates his life to searching out particular connections of nature will spontaneously be confronted with the question how they harmoniously fit into whole.”
11. “Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.”
12. “The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.”
13. “Unless you stake your life, life will not be won.”
14. “Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.”
15. “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”
