I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

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.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

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.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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.