"The greatest discovery of all is that the universe is alive."

"In fact, I should say that the world is a picture drawn by ourselves, and that we are ourselves part of the picture."

"We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the pic…"

"If we were bees, ants, or Lacedaemonian warriors, to whom personal fear does not exist and cowardice is the most shameful thing in the world, warring would go on forever. But luckily we are only men —…"

"I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it."