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

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Most people see what is, and never see what can be.

For an idea that does not first seem insane, there is no hope.

A person experiences life as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. Our task must be to free ourselves from this self-imposed prison, and through compassion, to find the reality of Oneness.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.