Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up.
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
It would not be difficult to come to an agreement as to what we understand by science. Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thoroughgoing an association as possible.
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.[Beim Menschen ist es wie beim Velo. Nur wenn er faehrt, kann er bequem die Balance halten.]
It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which was thus lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the “merely-personal,” from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes and primitive feelings.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
It is a strange thing to be so widely known, and yet to be so lonely.
