I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
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.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.