We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I’d be a botanist.
Everything in life is vibration.
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.
I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.