“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”

“I cannot conceive of a great scientist without this profound faith: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

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

“Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.”

“An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.”

“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.”

“Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.”

“Bir insanın marş eşliğinde uygun adım yürümekten keyif alabilmesi, onu küçümsemem için yeterli bir nedendir. O büyük beyni, ona bir yanlışlık sonucu verilmiştir.”

“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else- unless it is an enemy”

“la gravedad no es culpable que la gente se enamore”

“Time is an illusion.”

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

“Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.”