Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.