It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.