You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.