We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher Powers which have made nature and have made us; for, assuredly, we have not come about by accident and certainly have not made ourselves

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.