For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: "I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

There is Auschwitz, and so there cannot be God.

If you and your child were going to be killed tomorrow, would you not give him to eat today?

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.