You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force; and in the white man's quest for wealth and an easy life they have been ruthlessly suppressed and exploited, degraded into slavery. The modern prejudice against Negroes is the result of the desire to maintain this unworthy condition.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.