Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.