I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.

If you do the same thing over and over again you cannot ever expect a different outcome.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.