the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.