Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

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

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.