Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Education is not received. It is achieved.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.