As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.