If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Information is not knowledge.

Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature

The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed.