The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.