Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently.

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

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.