Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.