Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

Every father wants a daughter to meet the right God, and the right man. Perhaps her father had failed with both.

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.

The faithful will be victorious over the sinners.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.