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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

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There are too many people, and too few human beings.

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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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