Daily quote by Institute for Advanced Study

• The Institute is an interesting Paradise. But in an ideal society, when you remove all the everyday frictions, the frictions that are created to take their place are so much more cruel.
  • Verna Hobson as quoted by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 18 December 2007. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-307-42473-0.