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

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.