Truly Novel Inventions Emerge Only In One's

No Fairer Destiny Could Be Allotted To Any Physical Theory Than That It Should Of Itself Point Out The Way To The Introduction Of A More Comprehensive Theory, In Which It Lives On As A Limiting Case.

It Is My Conviction That Pure Mathematical Construction Enables Us To Discover The Concepts And The Laws Connecting Them, Which Gives Us The Key To The Understanding Of Nature ... In A Certain Sense, Therefore, I Hold It True That Pure Thought Can Grasp Reality, As The Ancients Dreamed.

I Should Much Rather See Reasonable Agreement With The Arabs On The Basis Of Living Together In Peace Than The Creation Of A Jewish State. My Awareness Of The Essential Nature Of Judaism Resists The Idea Of A Jewish State With Borders, An Army, And A Measure Of Temporal Power, No Matter How Modest. I Am Afraid Of The Inner Damage Judaism Will Sustain—especially From The Development Of A Narrow Nationalism Within Our Own Ranks, Against Which We Have Already Had To Fight Strongly, Even Without A Jewish State.

One Is Born Into A Herd Of Buffaloes And Must Be Glad If One Is Not Trampled Under Foot Before One's Time.

How I Wish That Somewhere There Existed An Island For Those Who Are Wise And Of Good Will.