The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

One should respect an honest person even if he expresses opinions differing from one's own.

Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.