1. “Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.” (about A. Einstein)
2. ”As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never to be lost, and science can never regress.”
3. ”Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
4. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
5. ”There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
6. ”There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.”
7. ”Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and -- to go a step further -- our mathematicians do not know mathematics.”