There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

science has now been for a long time - and to an ever-increasing extent - a collective enterprise. Actually, new results are always, in fact, the work of specific individuals; but, save perhaps for rare exceptions, the value of any result depends on such a complex set of interrelations with past discoveries and possible future researches that even the mind of the inventor cannot embrace the whole.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.