Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else has ever thought.

To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.

The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!

Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.