"[When I joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] I did this in the hope that by rubbing elbows with thos…"

"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The …"

"If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human sufferin…"

"Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought."

"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."

"Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules."

"I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God i…"

"It is probably this dual code of morals which underlies the break in... many leading politicians who begin their poli…"

"Collective human suffering easily becomes an abstraction... being unable to multiply death or suffering by 100,000. T…"

"Mi è impossibile cingere i fianchi di una ragazza con il mio braccio destro e serrare il suo sorriso nella mia mano s…"