Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Balance in large measure is knowing the things that can be changed, putting them in proper perspective, and recognizing the things that will not change."

You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified... It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

It may be possible to fight intolerance, stupidity, and fanaticism seperately, but when they come together there is no hope.

The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.