I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Incompetence is the true crisis.

We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it.

Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.