“Hanya ada dua cara menjalani kehidupan kita. Pertama adalah seolah tidak ada keajaiban. Kedua adalah seolah segala sesuatu adalah keajaiban.”

“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.”

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

“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”

“satu-satunya yang pasti adalah ketidakpastian ”

“One cannot alter a condition with the same mind set that created it in the first place.”

“Morality is of the highest importance -- but for us, not for God.”

“Never lose a holy curiosity.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“Dancers are the athletes of God.”

“I see my life in terms of music.”

“The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.”

“E=mc2”

“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.”