A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

I like to think the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Peace comes through understanding

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.