Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.