Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.