I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own – a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

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.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

God always takes the simplest way.