"The Chinese don't sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods."

"Sometimes one has to look at the world from a distance to appreciate its beauty."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt …"

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."