Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Nothing happens unless something moves.
The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.