To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

Nothing happens until something moves. When something vibrates, the electrons of the entire universe resonate with it. Everything is connected.

To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.