It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere.

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

Live your life... as though everything is a miracle.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.