“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

“God always takes the simplest way.”

“Pure mathematics is in its way the poetry of logical ideas.”