The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

The German calamity of years ago repeats itself: people acquiesce without resistance and align themselves with the forces of evil.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

The greatest invention of mankind is compound interest.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.

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

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.