It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.