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

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.