The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Experts are just trained dogs.

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