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.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

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.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.