The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?