I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

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.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure.

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.