Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

To me, there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

I want to know all God's thoughts; all the rest are just details.