The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second.

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.