You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.

The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.