You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

What we don't know is much more than what we know.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.