"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 unites …"

"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration."

"The history of science shows that the human mind is capable of understanding the most complex phenomena."

"The man who has not passed through the bitter experience of doubt, has not made a single step forward in science."

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