I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
I have just got a new theory of eternity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
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.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.