We All Try To Escape

Academic Chairs Are Many, But Wise And Noble Teachers Are Few; Lecture-rooms Are Numerous And Large, But The Number Of Young People Who Genuinely Thirst After Truth And Justice Is Small

Few People Are Capable Of Expressing With Equanimity Opinions Which Differ From The Prejudices Of Their Social Environment. Most People Are Even Incapable Of Forming Such Opinions.

If I Had Only One Hour To Save The World, I Would Spend Fifty-five Minutes Defining The Problem, And Only Five Minutes Finding The Solution.

As A Human Being, One Has Been Endowed With Just Enough Intelligence To Be Able To See Clearly How Utterly Inadequate That Intelligence Is When Confronted With What Exists.

Every Serious Scientific Worker Is Painfully Conscious Of This Involuntary Relegation To An Ever-narrowing Sphere Of Knowledge, Which Threatens To Deprive The Investigator Of His Broad Horizon And Degrades Him To The Level Of A Mechanic.