Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. This is because after a last analysiswe are ourselves a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

A 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.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

The assumption of an absolute determinism is the essential foundation of every scientific enquiry.

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 all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

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.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’

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.

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

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer.