Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.
Life is like a bicycle; keep moving on to maintain balance.
Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
Only a monomaniac gets anything done.
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow.
I find it difficult to believe that I belong to such an idiotic, rotten species – the species that actually boasts of its freedom of will, heroism on command, senseless violence, and all of the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism.
We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it’s horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Experts are just trained dogs.
The physicist’s greatest tool is his wastebasket.