The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"—cannot hear the music of the spheres.

What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.