When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to the German press, which prided itself on the freedom of the press, and it failed me. Until at last the churches stood alone, and that for which I once had little regard earned my respect.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Experts are just trained dogs.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.