It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

Those who say that the study of science makes a man an atheist, must be rather silly people.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

Something which is against natural laws seems to me rather out of the question because it would be a depressive idea about God. It would make God smaller than he must be assumed. When he stated that these laws hold, then they hold, and he wouldn't make exceptions. This is too human an idea. Humans do such things, but not God.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.