Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.