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.

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems.

To be free means to be independent, not to be influenced by what others think and say.

Failure is success in progress