I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.
If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories.
In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.
My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.
Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.
The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power.
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought.
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
Don’t let the measurable drive out the relevant.
You can’t resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.
Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.
Things you can get access to, you should never memorize.
Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.
Gravity is a response to geometry.
What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.
One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.
I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.