If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
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.