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If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini.

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv.

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.

There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.

The words walked right out of my mouth.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. - The Summing Up.

Their eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - pâté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes. - The Rising Gorge, 1961.