There's a genius in all of us.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.