People should be more like animals . . . they should be more intuitive; they should not be too conscious of what they do while they do it.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.