When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead.

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

We can't solve today's problems with the mentality that created them.

God does not play dice.