Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game

I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.