Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Only a very dull man spells a word the same way twice.

Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water