Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.

... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.