The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

I have never written a book that didn't teach me far more than it taught my reader.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.