The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.

A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.