The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.