In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
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.
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.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.