Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product.

Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.

Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.