In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
God does not play dice.
I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.
There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
The greatest scientists are artists as well.
You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
Be a voice not an echo.
Whoever is devoid of the capacity to wonder, whoever remains unmoved, whoever cannot contemplate or know the deep shudder of the soul in enchantment, might just as well be dead for he has already closed his eyes upon life.
Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.
Earth is the insane asylum of the universe.
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.