Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

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.