In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.