Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.