God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.