"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking"
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."