The aims of life are the best defense against death.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer.

I have many times been praised for my lack of animosity towards the Germans. It's not a philosophical virtue. It's a habit of having my second reactions before the first.

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

A man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isn't he?