When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.