Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.
Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.
Future generation is the most important thing.
I've been left for someone. . . all those things. . . It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.