I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
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 test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.