If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

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

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

Whatever your problems in math are, I assure mine are greater.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.