Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

What Artistic and Scientific Experience Have in Common - Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking, and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science. If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, we are engaged in science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively as meaninful, then we are engaged in art. Common to both is the loving devotion to that which transcends personal concerns and volition.