Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.