Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

It is often claimed that knowledge multiplies so rapidly that nobody can follow it. I believe this is incorrect. At least in science it is not true. The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. This, of course, goes contrary to what everyone accepts.