Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

Everything you can imagine, nature has already created.