"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
"Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends."
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this."
"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."