Failure is success in progress

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.

What physics looks for: The simplest possible system of thought which will bind together the observed facts.

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought