Our time is distinguished by wonderful achievements in the fields of scientific understanding and the technical application of those insights. Who would not be cheered by this? But let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of m…

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally sp…

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of good will - and that is the supreme task of o…

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in …

I do deeply deplore, of the sake of the cause, the prevalent notion, that the clergy must be had, either by persuasion or by bribery. They will not need persua…