The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.