The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.