Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.