Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.