"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Light and liberty go together.”

“Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.”

“To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.”

“If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.”

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

“Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.”

“I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.”

“[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.”

“We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.”