...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.

So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.

In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction.

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.