“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”

“I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.”

“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

“I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.”

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

“What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.”