"The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket...." - Quote by Albert Einstein

“I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.”

“Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.”

“As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.”

“The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.”

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

“I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?”

“what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.”

“Without failure there is no achievement.”

“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”