I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of 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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.