“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

“Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.”

“Félek attól a naptól amikor a technológia fontosabb lesz,mint a személyes kapcsolattartás.A világon lesz egy generációnyi idióta.”

“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

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

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“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.”

“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.”