You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.

It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.