We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.