Almost all education has a political motive.

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all there is to know

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.