Through the release of atomic energy, our generation has brought into the world the most revolutionary force since prehistoric man's discovery of fire. This basic force of the universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded concept of narrow nationalisms.

The step between genius and insanity is very short.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory means nothing in natural science without comparison with the exactest experience. Without this philosophic attitude, his work would not have been possible.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.