Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.