When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to war. For indeed the war against prejudice, greed, and ignorance is eternal, and those who dedicate themselves to it give their lives no less because they may live to see some fraction of the battle won.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.