What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.