Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.