Quotes by Theoretical Physicist

"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."

"A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."

"The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society."

"Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal."

"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."

"One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one’s time."

"The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation."