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If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.