Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.