We Can Understand Almost Anything, But We

Everyone Likes Me, Yet Nobody Understands Me.

My Scientific Work Is Motivated By An Irresistible Longing To Understand The Secrets Of Nature Not By Other Feelings.

It Is Very Difficult To Explain This Feeling To Anyone Who Is Entirely Without It, Especially As There Is No Anthropomorphic Conception Of God Corresponding To It. The Individual Feels The Nothingness Of Human Desires And Aims And The Sublimity And Marvelous Order Which Reveal Themselves Both In Nature And In The World Of Though. He Looks Upon Individual Existence As A Sort Of Prison And Wants To Experience The Universe As A Single Significant Whole.

The Goal Of Pacifism Is Possible Only Though A Supranational Organization. To Stand Unconditionally For This Cause Is The Criterion Of True Pacifism.

The Cult Of Individual Personalities Is Always, In My View, Unjustified. To Be Sure, Nature Distributes Her Gifts Variously Among Her Children. But There Are Plenty Of The Well-endowed Ones Too, Thank God, And I Am Firmly Convinced That Most Of Them Live Quiet, Unregarded Lives.