In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.