I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.