One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

Kill one man, and you are murderer.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.