Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.