Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

The last thing to collapse is the surface.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they confused me.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.