Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Keep fighting until the last buzzer sounds.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.

Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity.