Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.