I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.