The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

I want to know God's thoughts.