I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.