What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.

There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks between nations . . . What I want to do is to disarm the mind. After that, everything else will automatically follow. The ultimate weapon for such mental disarmament is international education.

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

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

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.

Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'