The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.
My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort