Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of 'independent existence.' There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.