
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I don't know how the third world war will be fought, but I do know that the fourth one will be fought with sticks and stones.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard dut
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth who refuse military service.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a [person] does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses their intelligence.
There remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Where there is love there is no question
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother
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