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.

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.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

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.

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

Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

Self-confidence. Let's fight the demon that makes you look smaller than you truly are.

A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.

States like men have their growth their manhood their decrepitude their decay.

Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one of its 'values', Truth.

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.

Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment.

When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.