There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor.

Gravity is a response to geometry.

One can't teach a cat not to catch birds

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.