Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
It is not the shilling I give you that counts, but the warmth that it carries with it from my hand.