No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.