19 Quotes by Chaim Weizmann

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.

As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

Each country can absorb only a limited number of Jews, if she doesn't want disorders in her stomach. Germany already has too many Jews

On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.