I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Albert Einstein · In Philipp Frank, Einstein, His Life and Times (1947)

Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “I no longer need to take part in the competition of the big brains. Participating in the process has always seemed to me to be an awful type of slavery no less evil than the passion for money or power.” · To Paul Ehrenfest, 5 May 1927, on the race for academic promotion.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein · From a tribute to Paul Langevin, 1947.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Albert Einstein · An aphorism written for Leo Baeck's eightieth birthday, 1953.

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Sylvia Earle · Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honour, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Winston Churchill · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 31 March 1949

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

W. K. Clifford · The Ethics of Belief (1876)

“I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.”

“Participating in the competition of the big brains has always seemed to me an awful type of slavery, no less evil than the passion for money or power.”

“Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”

“There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.”

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honour, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”

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