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.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.