“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”

“The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”

“To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.”

“with every action theres an equal opposite reaction,with every problem theres a solution just a matter of taking action”

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”

“I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to”

“How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.”

“Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.”