“Tanda kecerdasan sejati bukanlah pengetahuan tapi imajinasi.”

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”

“There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.”

“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.”

“I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws.”

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”

“Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”

“To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition”

“The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.”

“Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them.”

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.”

“The tendencies we have mentioned are something new for America. They arose when, under the influence of the two World Wars and the consequent concentration of all forces on a military goal, a predominantly military mentality developed, which with the almost sudden victory became even more accentuated. The characteristic feature of this mentality is that people place the importance of what Bertrand Russell so tellingly terms “naked power” far above all other factors which affect the relations between peoples. The Germans, misled by Bismarck’s successes in particular, underwent just such a transformation of their mentality—in consequence of which they were entirely ruined in less than a hundred years. I must frankly confess that the foreign policy of the United States since the termination of hostilities has reminded me, sometimes irresistibly, of the attitude of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, and I know that, independent of me, this analogy has most painfully occurred to others as well. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc.) are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts—in short, the psychological factors—are considered as unimportant and secondary. Herein lies a certain resemblance to Marxism, at least insofar as its theoretical side alone is kept in view. The individual is degraded to a mere instrument; he becomes “human materiel.” The normal ends of human aspiration vanish with such a viewpoint. Instead, the military mentality raises “naked power” as a goal in itself—one of the strangest illusions to which men can succumb.”