There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

A brave man, whose only fault was being a woman.

The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!