One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.