I Am A Jew, But I Am

I Have Never Belonged Wholeheartedly To A Country, A State, Nor To A Circle Of Friends, Nor Even To My Own Family. When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives. Well-being And Happiness Never Appeared To Me As An Absolute Aim. I Am Even Inclined To Compare Such Moral Aims To The Ambitions Of A Pig.

I Never Commit To Memory Anything That Can Easily Be Looked Up In A Book

I Do Not Believe That A Moral Philosophy Can Ever Be Founded On A Scientific Basis. … The Valuation Of Life And All Its Nobler Expressions Can Only Come Out Of The Soul’s Yearning Toward Its Own Destiny. Every Attempt To Reduce Ethics To Scientific Formulas Must Fail. Of That I Am Perfectly Convinced.

The Most Important Tool Of The Theoretical Physicist Is His Wastebasket.

Formerly, People Thought That If Matter Disappeared From The Universe, Space And Time Would Remain. Relativity Declares That Space And Time Would Disappear With Matter.