If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.