I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation

A woman is always Right. But sometimes confused or may be misinformed or rude or stubborn or senseless or unchangeable about her opinions or even down right stupid at times but NEVER wrong... She is always Right.

I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.