... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

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

Creative energy is more critical than learning.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.