To Punish Me For My Contempt For

A Human Being Is A Part Of The Whole Called By Us Universe, A Part Limited In Time And Space. He Experiences Himself, His Thoughts And Feeling As Something Separated From The Rest, A Kind Of Optical Delusion Of His Consciousness. This Delusion Is A Kind Of Prison For Us, Restricting Us To Our Personal Desires And To Affection For A Few Persons Nearest To Us. Our Task Must Be To Free Ourselves From This Prison By Widening Our Circle Of Compassion To Embrace All Living Creatures And The Whole Of Nature In Its Beauty.

If People Would Only Talk About What They Understood, Earth Would Be A Very Quiet Place.

Everybody Acts Not Only Under External Compulsion But Also In Accordance With Inner Necessity.

I Want To Know The Thoughts Of God. Everything Else Is Just Details.

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