Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think