I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.