The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.