Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail.

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.

The strongest force in the universe is Compound Interest.

When I'm judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

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