Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species - the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

God always takes the simplest way.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.