I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Memory... is an internal rumour.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
I'll always be poor in my mind.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
Dare to risk public criticism.