There are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.

Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.