The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in line and file to the strains of music falls below my contempt; he received his great brain by mistake -- the spinal cord would have been amply sufficient. This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism -- how intensely I despise them! War is low and despicable, and I had rather be smitten to shreds than participate in such doings.

Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

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