The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant.

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.