Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Play is the highest from of research.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.