Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
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.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.