As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Even a fool is wise after an event.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.