The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

God always takes the simplest way.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.