It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

One cannot deal with a problem with the same thinking that creates it.