If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Do not destroy what you cannot create.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Even if we accept, as the basic tenet of true democracy, that one moron is equal to one genius, is it necessary to go a further step and hold that two morons are better than one genius?

If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.