It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.