Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed.

He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.