Young People Ask Me If This Country

Idealism Is The Highest Form Of Reason.

If We Treasure Our Own Experience And Regard It As Real, We Must Also Treasure Other People's Experience.

A Wise Man In China Asked His Gardener To Plant A Shrub. The Gardener Objected That It Only Flowered Once In A Hundred Years. "in That Case," Said The Wise Man, "plant It Immediately." [on The Importance Of Fundamental Research.]

In Nation After Nation, Democracy Has Taken The Place Of Autocracy.

It Is Folly To Use As One's Guide In The Selection Of Fundamental Science The Criterion Of Utility. Not Because (scientists)... Despise Utility. But Because. .. Useful Outcomes Are Best Identified After The Making Of Discoveries, Rather Than Before.