“The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.”

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.

Never think of results, just do!

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines.

This is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics.

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.