Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions.

When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.