The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

As Freud observed, our relationship with science must be paradoxical because we are forced to pay an almost intolerable price for each major gain in knowledge and power — the psychological cost of progressive dethronement from the center of things, and increasing marginality in an uncaring universe.

It's too bad our problems are not solved more easily. But that is an old stupid complaint. Still the others are stupid. It is as if to save ourselves we had to save them too. That is why genius must suffer- it has to bear the burdens of the whole world. Our happiness and reality depends on the happiness and reality of others.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

The price of greatness…is responsibility.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

... science demands a terrible price - that we accept what experiments tell us about the universe, whether we like it or not.