I believe that a human being can do a lot himself to shape his life. For me, the most important thing is to work hard when I work and acquire all possible knowledge in my line of work, and then...
I’ve tried, in coming upon my feelings about what makes me secure, to avoid some of the outer things which would make me feel insecure, and go to the things which I really think about most, in the way I...
I believe that my beliefs are changing. Nothing is positive. Perhaps I’m in a stage of metamorphosis, which will one day have me emerging complete, sure of everything. Perhaps, I shall spend my life searching. Until this winter, I believed...
I believe in the integrity of the human being and in encouraging him to develop his own pattern of life, because only in so doing can humanity preserve itself from the constant threat posed by those who would destroy it...
Being a physicist, I believe that atoms and their constituent electrons, neutrons, and protons are realities in the scientific world of physics. As one reared in the Christian tradition, I also believe that God and the human soul are realities...
My religion, if I have one, is of the profoundest humility. It can be resolved into the few words: I simply do not know. Who am I to pretend to know? I am less than a speck of dust on...
I have believed in the essential goodness of man since I was a small boy. There may be occasions when this goodness is temporarily shrouded and darkness may envelope the universe. But it is to man’s self-renunciation that the temporary...
The child is father of the man, and the pattern accepted in early days lasts a long time, although it may become hidden and confused with the passing of the years. The pattern for us was set by my father,...
The core of my personal philosophy rises out of the belief that man is both a thinking and feeling creature. It is in reaching harmonious adjustment of these two great capacities that man begins to exercise his true creative strength....
