The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
I like the Swiss because by and large they are more humane than the other people aming whom I have lived.
The war is won, but the peace is not.
Even a fool is wise after an event.
The step between genius and insanity is very short.
I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.
Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn’t know came along and did it.
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.
If you took half of something and continued to take half of that half and so on, you would never reach an end.
To see with one’s own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word – is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It’s time to stop reading. It’s time to lay down the books and write.
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information...
There are six-million shots in the game of pool.
Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.
I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.
Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country’s resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.
We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.