No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

All conditions and all circumstances in our lives are a result of a certain level of thinking. If we want to change the conditions and circumstances, we have to change the level of thinking that is responsible for it.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned.

Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the presence of fear, it would not do.