I am enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

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.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

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.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

God always takes the simplest way.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even capable of forming such opinions.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. 

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.  

he attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. 

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.  

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