Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it than a cow realizes of the botany of the plants which it eats with pleasure.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.