I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.