In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

One picture is worth a thousand words

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.