“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.”

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.

I go into the Upanishads to ask questions.

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth.

If an idea does not appear bizarre, there is no hope for it.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

One must always do what one really cannot.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

In a society where you are taught to love everything, what value does that place on love?

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow