The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.