What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.

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.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size