I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.

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.

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

I want to know all God's thoughts.