I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift – and the rational mind is a faithful servant. – We have created a society that honors the servant – and has forgotten the gift.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.