The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

Be a voice not an echo.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Imagination is more valuable than information.

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.