My Only Refuge, As A Serious Young

I Cannot Conceive Of A God Who Rewards And Punishes His Creatures, Or Has A Will Of The Type Of Which We Are Conscious In Ourselves. An Individual Who Should Survive His Physical Death Is Also Beyond My Comprehension, Nor Do I Wish It Otherwise; Such Notions Are For The Fears Or Absurd Egoism Of Feeble Souls.

The Health Of Society Thus Depends Quite As Much On The Independence Of The Individuals Composing It As On Their Close Political Cohesion.

There Is No Vaccine Against Stupidity.

One Thing I Have Learned In A Long Life: That All Our Science, Measured Against Reality, Is Primitive And Childlike -- And Yet It Is The Most Precious Thing We Have.

I Believe In Mystery And, Frankly, I Sometimes Face This Mystery With Great Fear. In Other Words, I Think That There Are Many Things In The Universe That We Cannot Perceive Or Penetrate, And That Also We Experience Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life Only In A Very Primitive Form. Only In Relation To These Mysteries Do I Consider Myself To Be A Religious Man.