The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.

When you won't be able to describe it simply just, you don't are aware of it well sufficient.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.