The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.
God is clever, but not dishonest.
The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
One should never impose one’s views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.
Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.
My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.
There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.
The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company.