How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

It is intelligent to have a plan, but neurotic to fall in love with it.

Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.