It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.