If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper.

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.