We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.