Society and the World

Anyone who advises Americans to keep secret information which they may have about spies and saboteurs is himself an enemy of America.

A powerful searchlight of the human mind, piercing by its rays the darkness of the unknown, has suddenly been extinguished. The world has lost its foremost genius and the Jewish people its most illustrious son in the present generation.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

When one looks at humankind today, one notices with regret that quantity does not make up for quality. If quantity could only substitute for quality, we would be in better circumstances now than was Ancient Greece.

When one looks at humankind today, one notices with regret that quantity does not make up for quality. If quantity could only substitute for quality, we would be in better circumstances now than was Ancient Greece.

Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing.

Race is a fraud. All modern people are a conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Race is a fraud. All modern people are a conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

Homosexuality should not be punishable except to protect children.

One should keep in mind that on average the moral qualities of people do not differ much from country to country.

One should keep in mind that on average the moral qualities of people do not differ much from country to country.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

I believe that all creatures who can have young ones together are very much the same.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

The discovery of a nuclear chain reaction need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

The unified field theory has been put into retirement. It is so difficult to employ mathematically that I have not been able to verify it somehow, in spite of all my efforts. This state of affairs will no doubt last many more years, mostly because physicists have little understanding of logical-philosophical arguments.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people on Earth would be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start out again, and civilization would be restored.