It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.