It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.