You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

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

Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.