It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Fear is the glue that holds us together.

You are the apple of Love’s eye.

Only with a leafcan I talk of the forest,

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

The Our Father contains all the duties we owe to God, the acts of all the virtues and the petitions for all our spiritual and corporal needs.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.