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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.