Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds.

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking