By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.

A mathematical equation stands forever.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.